The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.

        • @HawkeEnglish
          -5•6 months ago

          DDG is shit.

          Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

            • @HawkeEnglish
              1•6 months ago

              Effective search results.

              Two recent examples:

              • searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
              • searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.
              • @accideathEnglish
                4•6 months ago

                The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.

      • @RestrictedAccountEnglish
        14•6 months ago

        I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results

      • @[email protected]English
        14•6 months ago

        google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing

      • @JeffreyOrangeEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?